What is the Best Organizational Chart for Performance Management?

Dutch business executives and government administrators are digesting the findings of a recent study addressing how to best organize departments, functions and divisions for the 21st century. The report, The Emergence of the Multidimensional Organization, from the Universiteit van Amsterdams business school, revealed through field research with 40 Dutch organizations that there is a shift in thinking. Most firms or government agencies traditionally organize around a unit, sometimes a profit center concept, where managers have both authority and accountability for what they can locally control. But is this suboptimal?